| Midnight Oil – Redneck Wonderland Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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It's leftist dicktards that make rightist dicktards necessary, and vice versa. You're all as irrational and biased as each other. I want nothing to do within of you |
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| Moby – Run On Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[themopo976:34904] Personally I find it disturbing that anyone would say anything at all about something as unlikely as a god until and unless they can provide some evidence that a god (of any sort) actually exists. Until someone can do that, they may as well be talking about how the magic underpants gnomes are gonna cut down the filthy sinners that wear their underpants for 4 days in row (front, backwards, inside out front, inside out backwards). If they can make shit up then I can too! |
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| No Doubt – Just A Girl Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@sokomy My apologies for the length of this reply. It got away from me a bit. "perhaps in your homicide rates to truly identify gender causation you should look more at the rates of women on men homicide rates and men on women homicide rates. I would imagine men on men homicide rates would be by far the largest" Yes, you are correct. The stats show that men are both the perpetrators and the victims of most homicides. There are many reasons for this, most of which relate to our genetics and traditional gender roles, norms, and expectations but there are also enormous problems in the methods of collection of these statistics nearly all of which skew numbers away from female perpetrators and towards male perpetrators. These problems are numerous but range from the way homicide statistics are categorised (e.g. women are far more likely to persuade or pay a third party, almost always a man (typically the new boyfriend, a male relative, or a hired hit man) to kill their target rather than actually do it themselves which counts in the crime stats as male on male homicide) to the fact that women are incredibly less likely to be found guilty of homicide, even when found guilty of intentionally killing someone (women far more often get lenient treatment and have their charges dropped to manslaughter or some lesser crime, sometimes even dropped altogether). Even accounting for all of this though, I would suspect that male on male homicide would still be the most common, just not overwhelmingly so. However, I fail to see how that weakens my point at all. The point I was making was that women are, objectively, at half the risk of violent victimisation as men yet, despite this, they claim to fear being the victim of violence far, far more and claim that this fear limits their freedom. To have the incredible privilege of being the safest gender by a huge margin and then complaining that you are limited in your freedom by a fear of violence is just unseemly IMHO. It’s on a similar level to a wealthy Wall St. banker standing in front of a homeless person and complaining about the cost of caviar and Cuban cigars. The level of fear these women (and it’s not all women) claim to feel is massively overblown, is nowhere near proportionate to the actual risk, and is in no way rational. Instead it is a fear that has been grossly inflated and blown out of all proportion by the ubiquitous and decades-long campaign by feminist activists to promote the false narrative that violence is something that only men use (and usually against women). They regularly use false or misleading statistics and outright lies to promote this fear, mistrust and hatred of men in the minds of women which leads them to believe that all men (or at least a significant majority) are out to get them. These activists are intentionally conflating the fact that most homicides are perpetrated by men with the narrative that most men are homicidal and they are literally teaching women to be irrationally fearful of men in the process. I thought feminism was supposed to empower women, not turn them into whimpering cowards metaphorically huddled in a corner or rampant man-haters out for specious revenge. There is no way I want my daughter to grow up with a twisted view of men like that. "You would be better looking at domestic violence, rape, sexual assault etc. rates as these are more reflective of society (in that non-criminals are using the victims of such crimes ... rather than homicides, which largely are criminal based).” Very good point. However, I think you will find that this favours my argument rather than yours given that, unlike homicide, perpetrators of DV, sexual assault and rape are not overwhelmingly men (Check the Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) Project and look at the summary of findings here - http://www.domesticviolenceresearch.org/domestic-violence-facts-and-statistics-at-a-glance/ for evidence if you doubt me). This is true even before you take into account the plethora of factors that suppress and hide the numbers of male DV and sexual assault victims like: 1) Men are far less likely to report being abused or sexually assaulted/raped, especially when the perpetrator is female. In fact they are less likely to admit it to anyone, including surveyors and tend not to unless the surveys ask the questions in a non gender-biased way (men tend not to see the abuse they suffer as abuse so don’t answer yes when surveys ask the question in that way (which many do) even when they are actually being abused. When the questions focus on actions instead (e.g. Has your partner ever hit, kicked or used a weapon to injure you?) men are far more likely to report. 2) Even in cases when men are willing to report their victimisation, they are far more likely to meet with scepticism, resistance and even mockery from police/authorities 3) Thanks to feminist-driven policy like mandatory arrest policies and “The Duluth Model” of domestic violence (Google it), men are often actually arrested themselves when they seek protection from an abusive partner. 4) A list as long as my arm of other factors along these lines (this post is already too long)… In western countries, male victims of DV make up around 45% - 53% of all victims depending on the study and the specific country. Large well conducted meta-analyses peg the overall figure at around even with female victims edging out male victims over a lifetime but the opposite being the case in the past 12 months. Overall 25.3% of individuals have perpetrated domestic violence with women being more likely to perpetrate than men (28.3% female perpetrated and 21.6% male perpetrated). In bi-directional violent relationships (relationships in which both partners use violence, which is 57.9% of them), women are the initiator of violence far more often than men. In uni-directional violent relationships (relationships in which only one partner uses violence, which is the remaining 42.1% of them), women (at 28.3%) are more than twice as likely to be the violent perpetrator than men (at 13.8%). This is all backed by literally thousands of high quality peer-reviewed studies and meta-analyses that feminist activists avoid mentioning like the plague. Perpetration of sexual assault is also about equal between the genders too. In fact in the US, if you include prison rape (which most surveys don’t), men are almost twice as likely as women to be raped. Typically the most highly regarded single survey on sexual assault is the CDC NSVIS (National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey - https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf). Although, due to methodological sleight of hand, the executive summary (conveniently, the only part that journalists or most other people actually read) stated that the rates of rape are 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 71 for men but when you dig into the actual number tables to find the real story, you find that men and women are sexually assaulted at comparable rates (slightly more female than male victims - 5.1% of women and 4.6% of men over the previous 12 months). The reason they could get away with the atrociously misleading 1 in 71 lie is that the lead researcher (a feminist advocacy researcher named Dr. Mary Koss) chose to categorise a woman forcing a man to have sex with her against his will as not rape but as “Forced to Penetrate” and hid it under “Other Sexual Violence” (See Tables 2.1 and 2.2 on pages 18 and 19 if you want to check my facts). I think you would agree that the lay definition of rape is being forced to have sex against your will and by that definition, being “Forced to Penetrate” is most definitely rape whether Mary Koss agrees or not. So, as you can see, when you look at DV and sexual assault perpetrated by people that are more representative of "non-criminals”, it turns out that most of the stats peg the rates of perpetration as being very close to equal with a moderate bias toward women, not men, being the more violent or sexually transgressive. This is especially true when you factor in all of the things that disproportionately discourage men from reporting these types of crimes as well as false claims made against men that go unchecked. "In essence though this song doesn't delve into what you are suggesting at all” I agree that the song doesn’t significantly deal with DV or sexual assault but that was not my original point anyway. The facts and stats that I posted were in response to the erroneous “facts” claimed by Platinum91 which she seemed to think disproved the assertions in my original post. "if anything the complete opposite.” Not sure how you figure that. Unless you can elaborate I’d have to disagree. Completely willing to be convinced however. Again, apologies for the wall of text. |
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| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[Little_Latvian:16197] Clint Eastwood the Actor and Clint Eastwood the Jazz Musician are the same person. | |
| Motörhead – Ace Of Spades Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Nobody gets out alive so stop being scared of living life. That's my take on it. |
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| Cold Chisel – Flame Trees Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[tim_54321:13659] You are correct, it is the flowers, not the leaves. Thanks for the correction. | |
| The Boomtown Rats – Banana Republic Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[exexpat93:10090] "Hits you like a hammer but softly." Like an iron fist in a velvet glove. |
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| Garfunkel and Oates – Pregnant Women Are Smug Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Hilarious! Never heard anything from these girls that didn't have me belly laughing. Also, what are the odds of the two cutest girls in the entire world being part of the same band? Freaky! |
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| No Doubt – Just A Girl Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[CrocodileRock:2198] Sorry but you are just plain wrong, I don't know any gentler way to say it. 1) "First of all, women are victims of violent crimes more than any other group of people on this planet." Wrong. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Study on Homicide (2013), worldwide, 78.7% of homicide victims are male. As for victims of non lethal violence, look at the victims of violent crime statistics from any country you care to mention and you will find similar statistics there, around 75%-80% male victims. As I originally said, women are FAR less likely to be victims of violence than men, in just about all 1st world countries, men are roughly twice as likely as women to be victims of violence. In less developed nations (and especially in Latin America), the numbers are less skewed but men and boys are still the majority of victims by a wide margin. Look it up for yourself if you don't believe me. 2) "Secondly, the term "Rule of Thumb" is primarily associated with a law that was almost passed about the legality of spousal abuse in England. It is not a myth by any definition, in fact it's something of a joke. Furthermore, I'm quite sure carpenters have and always will use rulers/tape measures for exact measurements, seeing as it's kind of relevant to their line of work." Wrong again. Look, I could explain it all to you here but others have done the job for me and have probably done a far better job of it too. Here, read the wiki page, that gives you a decent synopsis... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb 3) "Thirdly, since you're a man you couldn't even begin to understand what it's like to be a woman. Just like I could never understand what it's like to be a man. Thinking otherwise or pretending we do understand got no one anywhere ever." I'm willing to agree with that. However, why do I need to understand what it is like to be a woman to point out facts and irrational fears based on those facts? I have a brain and I can interpret data and the data show that this fear that many women claim to have of being a victim of violent crime if they are ever, for example, walking alone at night somewhere is simply not rational, as the facts show. In most countries you are going to be roughly twice as safe from violence, and around 4 times as safe from murder, as any men you may happen to pass on your way and, while they will likely take sensible precautions and keep their wits about them, they aren't going to be complaining to all and sundry that society won't let them walk home alone at night. It takes a special type of entitlement to be the safest demographic of humans in existence and complain that your fear of being a victim is preventing you from living your life and that society is to blame for that. To say that women are right to be afraid in these situations and that, because I am a man, I am by default wrong, is to say that women are irrational and incapable of looking the facts and making sensible and rational decisions. Personally, I think far more highly of women than that. Finally, just a word of friendly advice, take it or leave it... If you are going to engage in a factual argument with someone, it pays to do some research and fact checking before you post. Doing so will prevent you from engaging in embarrassing faux pas like this again in the future. |
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| Billy Joel – She's Always A Woman Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The anthem of a self-abasing mangina moron. If she's always a woman to you, you deserve everything you get or, more likely, don't get. |
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| Roy Zimmerman – Creation Science 101 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| YAY! | |
| Monty Python – Galaxy Song Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Unfortunately, since this song was written, we have discovered more about the universe & some of the info in it is out of date & incorrect so I would caution anyone from using this song as reliable source of facts. They were considered correct at the time however. |
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| No Doubt – Just A Girl Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yes, really & honestly. If you must know, I am male but that it irrelevant. WRT, the beating reference, I was talking specifically about the "Rule of Thumb" line... "Your rule of thumb make me worry some" Many people have swallowed the myth that this saying originated from a time when it was legal to beat your wife but only with a stick that was no thicker than your thumb. As I say, this is a myth & has no grounding in truth. Nevertheless, I suspect that Gwen is making a reference to this by mentioning it &, as such, is complaining about something that is non-existent. Beating your wife (or any woman, with the possible exception of slaves in the bad old days) has ALWAYS been illegal. I was not claiming that the entire song is about men beating women. I think it's pretty obvious what this song is about. It is a litany of fears & consequent restrictions that Gwen feels limits what girls/women are able to do in our society. This is evidenced by lines like... "The moment that I step outside, So many reasons, For me to run and hide" Hide from what? From whom? As I said, she is far safer than a man would be. "'Cause they won't let me drive Late at night " Who's stopping her? There is no law saying she can't drive at night. My entire point was that her fears are unfounded as women are the safest demographic by a wide margin. She is complaining that she is held back & that she is "just a girl living in captivity". IMHO, It is her irrational fears that are holding her captive, not any true threat to her safety. I hope this better explains my position. |
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| No Doubt – Just A Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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So you don't believe in equality then? You think that a women should have all of her decisions made for her by a man so that she doesn't have to bother her pretty little head about such things & just sticks to cooking, cleaning, pumping out babies (sons if possible of course), & serving her man? Is that it? Or is it that you want all of the freedoms that men have without being held responsible for your actions & to receive special preferential treatment at the same time? Is that it? We already have people people who we hold to a lower standard of responsibility than the rest of us, they are called children. Is that what you want to be your entire life? Men can't live without women? I know that I can live without women like you, that's for sure. |
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| No Doubt – Just A Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I really like this song as far as the music goes but I've gotta say that the lyrics piss me off a lot. They seem to be typical of the endless bitching that SOME (please take note that I said "SOME") women do about how they can't do this or that because they don't feel safe. Women's fears in this regard are irrational. The fact is that women are the LEAST likely demographic to be victims of violence, all kinds of violence. Men are first, then there is daylight, oodles & oodles of daylight, then it's children & only then, safest of the lot, come women. Yet even though men are many times more likely to be victimised than women, they don't go around complaining about how they don't feel safe & how that is the fault of society. They take sensible precautions & stay on their toes & suck it up. And what the hell is she on about with the "rule of thumb" line? I certainly hope she isn't alluding to the myth that that term originated from when it was legal for men to beat their wives as long as the stick was no thicker than their thumb because that is nothing but a bunch of utter BS. The term actually originated in the carpentry/building trade where workers used the width of their thumbs as a rough equivalent for an inch measurement. It has nothing to do with the legalities of beating your wife (which has never been legal in western nations by the way). The entire thing just reeks of entitled self pity to me. |
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| TISM – (He'll Never Be an) Old Man River Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No one's had a stab at explaining the meaning? OK, I'll give it a go... Rather than being about River Phoenix & drug overdoses as a superficial read might reveal, I think TISM are going a layer deeper here. I think they are poking fun at celebrity culture & the way people obsessively follow celebrity antics, exactly like it itself is a drug. I think the following lines illustrate this best.. Now I'm bored and there's no stopping I need another celeb to fill my coffin Where will I get my next drug action? Odds on it'll be Michael Jackson The lines... I need another celeb to fill my coffin Where will I get my next drug action? ...are particularly telling. That's my take anyway. YMMV. Cheers, TV |
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| AC/DC – Back In Black Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is, I believe, a simple celebration of Bon Scott's life. I don't think it's trying to convey any sort of deeper message here (not that the celebration of a friend's life through song is in any way shallow). Anyway, Bon lived (and died) a fairly stereotypical rock & roll lifestyle. He spent a short time in prison in his youth & was generally seen as a troublemaker by authority figures. He was also a very heavy drinker, a detail that leads me to his stereotypical rock & roll death which is, of course, chocking on his own vomit while passed out drunk. Judging from the lyrics, this song is pretty obviously, IMHO, meant to be a celebration of his wild, hard drinking, rock & roll life. The timing of it's release is further evidence towards this interpretation. |
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| AC/DC – Back In Black Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No, it's not. The lyrics are correct as listed. You reckon having to tell people that they have the lyrics wrong is annoying? You should see how annoying it is to have to tell someone that the lyrics that they have offered as a correction to those who got the lyrics wrong, is itself wrong. |
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| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ummm, no. Firstly, the movie is called "The good, the bad & the ugly", not "the other". Secondly, those words are never spoken in that movie. In fact, I've watched all of Clint Eastwood's westerns and I am almost 100% sure that he doesn't say anything like that in any of his westerns. I am 100% sure however that, even if he does say it in one of his movies, it is NOT from the good, the bad & the ugly. It's one of my favourite movies & I've seen it dozens of times. Nowhere in it is there any mention of "sunshine in a bag" although, you are correct that he rides off with gold in a bag at the end. Actually, he rides off with $100,000 worth of gold in 4 bags if you want to get picky about it. |
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| They Might Be Giants – Science Is Real Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sorry ayyamana, going to have to disagree with you on that one. I think the lyrics here are meant to be taken completely literally and are, in fact, a response to the push by creationist groups in the U.S. to push the pseudoscientific claptrap of intelligent design on American school kids in science classes. |
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| Monty Python – Galaxy Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"So, can we have your liver then?" "Yeah, alright. You talked me into it" |
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| Everclear – Heroin Girl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Still nothing good!" No argument from me on that one. |
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| Everclear – Heroin Girl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"or is it just that i'm abnormal in the fact that i don't know any junkies?" You might be surprised at the number of people you know who are junkies. Just because you don't know they are doesn't mean they aren't. Many people use for years and years without ending up on the streets, losing their jobs, destroying their relationships, etc. I know, for nearly 2 decades I was one of them. Only a very few of my closest friends knew and even then it was only because I chose to tell them. Most had no idea. |
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| 10cc – I'm Not In Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Sure, but then again, what isn't better with Tori Amos? I know my bed isn't ;-) |
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| Kylie Minogue – Did It Again Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's about a girl who's habits of thought always get her into trouble or lead her inevitably to outcomes that she doesn't want. She is trying to tell herself to stop those habits and go in a new direction. It could be talking about this in relation to relationships, or career, or friendships or all of these. TV |
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| Bob Crosby – Way Back Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wonder if this song would even be listed here if it wasn't for Fallout 3. It's a bit like Cage the Elephant's "Ain't no rest for the Wicked". If it wasn't for Borderlands, only a handful of fans would have ever heard of it. That would be a pity though cos it's a great song. TV |
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| Roy Zimmerman – Creation Science 101 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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What? No comments? Doesn't anybody else like Roy Zimmerman? Personally I think the guy is a genius, not only is he hilarious, his lyrics are also always spot on. This song is especially cool since it's not only funny but actually a rockin' little melody to boot. Of course, the meaning of this song isn't hard to fathom. It's a pretty straight forward, if humorous, account of the sort of horrors that will be visited upon school children in the US if creation "scientists" ever get their way and introduce creationism to science classes. "God made the world just like it is He made the fossils just to tease us Old bones to test our faith in Jesus Yeah, this'll all be on the quiz" Thor have mercy upon you if anything even remotely like that is ever part of the science syllabus in US schools. You'll raise a generation of scientifically illiterate incompetents, a whole generation of them! Houston, TX - 2045 A.D... US scientists today announce plans to build a completely new class of space vehicle, powered entirely by faith in Jesus. When questioned about whether or not the $200 billion project will ever fly, scientists replied... "Of course it will! We've had engineers praying for it to work for years, we're not fools you know. Trust us, we're creation scientists. HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM! TV |
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| 4 Non Blondes – What's Up? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"You replied to a six-year-old post to say that?" Best. Comment. Ever. |
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| Adam Lambert – Whataya Want From Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"i literally listen to it all the time" *Smacks head repeatedly against the wall* ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! Don't they teach English in school any more? |
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| 10cc – I'm Not In Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I reckon that would rock. Do it dude! | |
| M.I.A. – Paper Planes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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YES! Thank you! Glad it wasn't just me. When I heard this for the first time I thought "Damn that sounds like the intro to 'straight to hell'" Actually "Straight to hell" is also about... Ahhhhhh, now I get why they sampled it. That M.I.A. is pretty damn clever huh? TV |
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| Cold Chisel – Khe Sanh Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is an awesome song, no question. Says a lot about the way the V Vets were treated in the 70's when they got home and the hard time that many had adjusting back into society. If you like this song, you should check out "I was only 19" by Redgum. That song brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it and I'm not ashamed to admit it. TV |
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| Cold Chisel – Flame Trees Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A flame tree is literally a tree. It's a type of tree that was planted in a lot of Australian small towns in the early part of the 20th century. Go to just about any Aussie country town and you'll see thousands of them lining the roads. They are called flame trees because in Autumn the leaves turn a bright orange and are kinda shaped like flames. TV |
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| Midnight Oil – Jimmy Sharman's Boxers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yep, you're spot on there. That's exactly what it's about. I've always wondered why they chose to take that tack with the lyrics though. As far as I am aware, there wasn't any exploitation going on, not really. No more than any business owner with employees being paid a wage is exploitation. It's my understanding that nobody was forcing them to fight. They were always free to leave & they were being paid a decent wage, plus bonuses for winning. I don't know where the Oils got the notion that it was some sort of expoititive setup. Then again, I am by no means an expert on the subject so perhaps there was more going on than I am aware of. Still, I've never heard similar claims from any other source. It's a strange one. |
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| Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Hehe. Chicks with baggage huh? Yeah, been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. | |
| Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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By the way, if you like a kickin' bassline, check out some of Bootsy's work on a song called "Groove is in the heart" by Dee-Lite. Or, if you prefer Flea, check out his bass on the RHCP's cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground". The baseline on that pumps like a 90-thousand watt funk pump! It's all genius work. TV |
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| Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I LOVE the bass on this song! I wonder who da bass player is?" You have excellent taste my friend. The bass player on this is the one, the only, Flea (from Red Hot Chilli Peppers) and, yes, the bass on this song is badass good. I wish I was the love child of Flea and Bootsy Collins. The two best bassists in the universe if you ask me. I only wish I was half as good. TV |
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| Henry Rollins – I Know You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Actually HR has both. He's got common sense and has also spent a good proportion of his life studying. He is insanely well read and you can see glimpses of the evidence of this in his work. | |
| Queen – I Want To Break Free Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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@blunderboy100 - your screen name is appropriate in this case because you have blundered in and commented without reading TheYipskee's post properly. His comments about this song being about Freddie's AIDS, etc. are obviously meant as a joke to highlight and ridicule the fact that so many people seem to be obsessed with finding that type of meaning in Queen's music, even in songs that Freddie didn't write or were written well before AIDS was even identified as a disease. Irony isn't just a word used to describe the properties of iron you know. TV |
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| Regurgitator – I Sucked A Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me it is more about how people will eat truly heroic amounts of shit and put up with the most soul crushing humiliation to get ahead in their careers, society, etc. Sure they achieve their goals but it takes most of their life to achieve it and their lives are just one endless line of dicks to suck on the way. The implication being that it's just not worth being miserable for most of your life just so you can get to the top of the heap. That's how I see it anyway. TV |
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| Coldplay – Yellow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Jeez!. Get your irony detectors checked people. Brits are always saying that yanks don't get irony. All evidence to the contrary, I say. Irony. It's not just a word used to describe the properties of iron. |
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| The Lemonheads – Buddy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I just remembered that the Lemonheads often collaborate with the Sydney based band "Smudge" (great band BTW. It's well worth tracking their stuff down if you haven't heard of them) so perhaps it's not as unlikely as I first thought. TV |
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| The Lemonheads – The Outdoor Type Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Yeah, I agree, brilliant song and hilariously funny. I might be Robinson Crusoe here but I get the feeling that the writer is actually disguising a subtle mockery of the typical "outdoor type" manly man with self-deprecation. Anyone else getting that? TV |
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| The Lemonheads – Buddy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I very much doubt that they are singing about King St. in Newtown/Enmore. I mean, King St. has got to be a pretty common street name and the band is from Boston in the U.S., not Sydney. I have no evidence that they aren't singing about King St in Newtown, I just think that it's not very likely. You are dead right about the name change though. It's listed as "Drug Buddy" on my copy of Shame About Ray. TV |
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| Rollins Band – Disconnected Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Damn, I admire Henry Rollins. Not only does he have an uncanny knack of saying exactly what I'm thinking, and would say myself if I wasn't such a fuck up when it comes to expressing myself, but he does it with the sort of effortless style that can only be achieved by working long and hard at your craft. Love him or hate him, you have to admire someone with that sort of commitment. Anyway, enough fanboying, about the song... I think this is about the sheer wall of inane data that we are exposed to every day. Not just from the mass media but also from people in the street who pick up on it and regurgitate it. The manufactured water cooler talking points, the latest celebrity scandals, the next "Big Thing"(tm), all the banal trivia and bland invalid's pap that the media serves up to us, and we, like lazy, overfed lap dogs, feed our emaciated brains on. There's nothing inellectually challenging in it. It's presented to us pre-spun so we know instantly how we are supposed to feel about each and every issue, there's no decision making or critical analysis going on when we process it, we just absorb it into ourselves like saturated fat. We're so used to it now that it's almost Pavlonian. To me, this song is saying that (at least sometimes) he'd prefer to experience oblivion than have to listen to another bozo repeat what he heard on TV that morning and try to pass it off as his considered opinion on the subject. Considering the fact that hardly anyone I know seems to read anything with any meat in it any more, I'd have to admit to feeling the same way on more than one occasion. A significant percentage of the Earth's population has easy access to an amazingly rich and varied banquet of ideas and thought but rather than do what I would consider the obvious (i.e. dig in with both hands, right up to the elbows), they sit in the corner eating the intellectual equivalent of a big mac over and over again. That's sad, but sadder still is that they are happy that way, or at least they seem to be. I'm optimistic that the rise of the Internet will, one day, break the Svengali-esque hold of the TV netwoks over the masses and once again expose people to a vast range of raw ideas. Sure, some of those ideas will be just as banal, others will be distasteful, some will be downright offensive, and others still will just be straight up batshit weird but I, for one, wouldn't have it any other way. TV |
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| Nirvana – All Apologies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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That's a pretty long bow to be pulling, I can't say I agree with you. Seems like you've decided what it's about and then twisted the interpretation to fit it. I'm pretty sure that this was written well before he met Courtney Love anyway. TV |
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| Urge Overkill – Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Not sure I agree with you there, SkinnyEff. I think it's pretty clearly the girl's BF (probably older and probably not very "respectable"). I also get the feeling that it's the girl's family (as opposed to friends) who is trying to prevent the couple getting together. Lines like: "And I'll never know when I come around What I'm gonna find" "The boy's no good" "But if they get their chance they'll end it for sure Surely would" ...all seem to support this (to me at least). Anyway, absolutely shit hot song and the Neil Diamond version is also rocking. 5 Stars. TV |
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| Ben Folds – All U Can Eat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hab204 wrote: "if you're not fed up with American culture, you're probably not paying attention" Damn! Wish I had said that. I'm gonna make t-shirt with that on it. TV |
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